Petrol Price Pandemonium
Category: General. Date published: 19/09/2008
Petrol Price Pandemonium
Have you noticed how oil prices are always in the news lately? Obviously they have a huge impact on our economy. The most obvious price they influence is petrol.
So when oil prices reached a high of $143 per barrel at the start of July unleaded petrol prices rose to £1.22 per litre. So as the price of oil falls you would expect the price of petrol to fall.
In actual fact petrol prices have not fallen by the same amount as oil. A barrel of oil today is $95. That is a fall of 33%. At the same time petrol has fallen by about 12p a fall of 9%. Why?
http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/fds/hi/business/market_data/commodities/28696/twelve_month.stm
Well there are a couple of significant reasons really.
OPEC will manage the supply of oil to maintain there prices
Petrol companies are in business to make money and are owned by the wealthiest people on Earth.
Like most people I would prefer these companies to stop profiteering and to start to appreciate their customers. Petrol prices across Europe have fallen in line with oil prices, why not here?
